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Michoud Assembly Facility
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The Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) is an 832-acre manufacturing complex owned by NASA in New Orleans East, a section of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States. Organizationally it is part of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and is currently a multi-tenant complex to allow commercial and government contractors, as well as government agencies, to use the site.
Top to bottom, left to right: Aerial view of MAF in January 2020, the factory floor, Artemis 1 liquid oxygen tank in the South Vertical Assembly Build
First stages of Saturn V rockets being assembled at the Michoud factory in the 1960s
First stages of Saturn V rockets being assembled at the Michoud factory in the 1960s
A section of eastern New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The Michaud Assembly Facility (MAF) at right (green) is not flooded, while the surrounding n
A section of eastern New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The Michaud Assembly Facility (MAF) at right (green) is not flooded, while the surrounding neighborhoods (dark greenish brown) are extensively flooded.
Welding of the SLS liquid oxygen tank in the South Vertical Assembly Building
Welding of the SLS liquid oxygen tank in the South Vertical Assembly Building
Marshall Space Flight Center
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The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), located in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the U.S. government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center. As the largest NASA center, MSFC's first mission was developing the Saturn launch vehicles for the Apollo program. Marshall has been the lead center for the Space Shuttle main propulsion and external tank; payloads and related crew training; International Space Station (ISS) design and assembly; computers, networks, and information management; and the Space Launch System. Located on the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, MSFC is named in honor of General of the Army George C. Marshall.
Aerial view of MSFC in 2016. Note that the building on the right has been demolished.
Aerial view of MSFC in 2016. Note that the building on the right has been demolished.
Ceremony of transfer from Army to NASA July 1, 1960
Ceremony of transfer from Army to NASA July 1, 1960
President Eisenhower unveils a bust of George C. Marshall at the space center with help from Marshall's widow, Katherine Tupper Marshall.
President Eisenhower unveils a bust of George C. Marshall at the space center with help from Marshall's widow, Katherine Tupper Marshall.
Lunar Roving Vehicle test article on test track
Lunar Roving Vehicle test article on test track